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Job 32:3
New English Translation
Job 32:3
New English Translation
3 With Job’s[a] three friends he was also angry, because they could not find[b] an answer, and so declared Job guilty.[c]
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- Job 32:3 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were.
- Job 32:3 tn The perfect verb should be given the category of potential perfect here.
- Job 32:3 tc This is one of the eighteen “corrections of the scribes” (tiqqune sopherim); it originally read, “and they declared God [in the wrong].” The thought was that in abandoning the debate they had conceded Job’s point.
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